Our start actually may had led to our demise

[SteelBowl70]

After hearing Jamie's comments, our start actually validated his thinking about focusing on defense. Had Wisconsin came out shooting well and taken a lead, Jamie likely would have to had to go to Luther sooner especially when Mike had to sit with 2 fouls. But the fact that it was a brutally defensive game and on which Pitt never trailed by more than a single point until the last minutes apparently never caused Jamie to readjust his thinking.

I am not excusing or agreeing with this - I would have played Luther much more and he would have been off the bench at the first sub opportunity. I am just saying that had it been Wisconsin taking the early 10-4 lead, Jamie would have had to rethink his defensive first approach.

But in the end, Jamie is still stuck in the type of mindset Cowher had prior to 2006. It wasn't until Cowher threw caution to the wind that he was able to win a Super Bowl. Jamie can't get there.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

In the first half, if we lose, we lost in the 1st Half because we had opportunities to be up 15, 20 points just like we choked out Colorado in the 1st Half a couple years ago. We kept saying how it reminded us of the VT game where VT only had 10 points late in the half but we only had 19 and couldn't stretch it

Eventually, Wisconsin was going to score. Pitt was consistently abysmal. We won the 1st Half 22-16 and lost the 2nd Half 31-21. They started to score.

 

[Chaos]

After hearing Jamie's comments, our start actually validated his thinking about focusing on defense. Had Wisconsin came out shooting well and taken a lead, Jamie likely would have to had to go to Luther sooner especially when Mike had to sit with 2 fouls. But the fact that it was a brutally defensive game and on which Pitt never trailed by more than a single point until the last minutes apparently never caused Jamie to readjust his thinking.

I am not excusing or agreeing with this - I would have played Luther much more and he would have been off the bench at the first sub opportunity. I am just saying that had it been Wisconsin taking the early 10-4 lead, Jamie would have had to rethink his defensive first approach.

But in the end, Jamie is still stuck in the type of mindset Cowher had prior to 2006. It wasn't until Cowher threw caution to the wind that he was able to win a Super Bowl. Jamie can't get there.

I really think Dixon is 2nd guessing himself about how he handled Luther last night. If he isn't, that is worrisome.